On the nature of creepiness (study)

“Surprisingly, until now there has never been an empirical study of ‘creepiness’ “

This situation was rectified by Professor Francis T. McAndrew and Sara S. Koehnke of the Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, US, in a 2016 paper for the journal New Ideas in Psychology. The team stopped short of giving an exact definition of ‘creepiness’ – nevertheless, they were able to generate a list of the perceived ‘creepiness’ ratings for various professions :